NOW FOR JUMBO

The Cortland News, Friday, August 25, 1882.

CORTLAND AND VICINITY.

   Now for Jumbo. [Barnum & Bailey Circus performed in Cortland, Saturday, August 26, 1882—CC editor.]

   A light frost visited this section Saturday night.

   Trackmen are at work again on the U. I. & E. R.R.

   A big crowd at Cortland to-morrow. But she can take care of them.

   Beams for the first floor of the new block [Standard building—CC editor] are being placed in position.

   Mr. Isaac Miller is preparing to lay a flagstone sidewalk in front of his saloon and the lot adjoining.

   The corner stone of the new Congregational church will, it is expected, be laid in about two weeks.

   Cincinnatus has the Broom Drill fever. [Dance social for young men and women—CC editor.] The disease culminates next Monday and Tuesday evenings.

   Weeds along the highways should be cut this month, as the law directs. Pathmasters should give heed.

   The increased travel on the Southern Central has induced the managers to add another car to the 11:42 train.—Moravia Rep.

   The price of beefsteak has been reduced by the butchers of this village from 22 cts. per pound to 8 cts., and other meats in proportion.

   The U. I. & E. R. R. Co. will sell tickets to-morrow from Cazenovia for $4 for round trip, and intermediate stations at proportionate rates A special train will leave Cortland for Cazenovia at 11 p. m., after the evening [circus] performance.

   Mr. Delos Bauder has concluded to tear down the wooden building adjoining the Cortland House on Groton avenue, and will build all that part of brick, instead of wood, as he at first intended. This will add greatly to the appearance of the building.

   Upon the application of Mr. A. B. Chamberlain, receiver of the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira Railway, the supreme court has ordered him to pay the wages of the employees, all bills for material, and money due other roads for terminal facilities that accrued previous to the 3d of August.

   By consent of parties, the injunction served by the S., B. & N. Y. R. R. Co. on the Cortland and Homer Street Railway Co., to restrain the latter from crossing the railroad company's tracks, has been made perpetual, so that now the street railway company can at any time make the motion to dissolve the injunction.

   Mrs. Burdick's select school opens on Monday, Sept. 4. She has increased her facilities for teaching, as will be seen by reference to a business local in this issue.

   Cortland ought to have another directory. The last one issued was in 1879 and the increase since then in population, business, etc., would seem to warrant the publication of another at this time.

   Tuesday morning while Mrs. Abbott Clute, who resides near Hunt's' Corners, was engaged in making soap out of doors her clothing in some manner caught fire, and entirely burned from the unfortunate woman. Her flesh was burned so severely that it cleaved from the bones. She was alive at present writing (Tuesday P. M.), but it is not thought she can survive the night.—Marathon Ind.

   The fourteenth annual meeting of the Central New York Pioneer Association will be held at Association Hall in Syracuse, Wednesday, September 6, beginning in the forenoon at 10:30 o'clock. The annual address will be delivered at 2 o'clock in the afternoon by B. B. Burt, of Oswego. Other exercises of the day will be letters and communications, reminiscences of old settlers and biographical sketches of pioneers.

   The fact may not be very generally known, but it is no less a fact, that the peak in Virgil on which the State Survey station is located, is the highest point of land in New York State, it being 2,160 feet above the level of the sea; while the-highest point of the Catskills is only 2,000 feet above the level. The point is fully 1,000 feet above the level of Marathon village, and we are fully 1,100 above the sea level. The Catskills appear much higher than this Virgil peak because they descend without break to the sea level, while our hills here are broken and descent is more gradual.— Marathon Ind.

   By reference to the corporation proceedings published this week our citizens will see that the contract between the Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Railroad Company, the Cortland Wagon Company and the Village of Cortland, as parties of the first, second and third part, in regard to the widening of Railroad street [Central Avenue] across the railroad company's lands, the opening of Pendleton street to East Court street, etc., is completed and, therefore, settles the differences heretofore existing between these parties in regard to the extension of East Court street across the tracks of the railroad company.

  

CORPORATION PROCEEDINGS.

   At a special meeting of the board of trustees held August 14, 1882: Present—I. H. Palmer, President; G. W. Bradford, D. E. Smith arid H. Wells, trustees.

   The bond of George R. Warner, as collector, with Edward Keator and Samuel Keator as sureties, was presented, approved by the board and ordered placed on file.

   The clerk was instructed to compute the amount of the charges against individuals for labor, etc., insert the same in the tax-list against the several parties, to be collected the same as other taxes, and deliver the tax-list so completed with the collector's warrant to collect the same. On motion meeting adjourned.

JONATHAN HUBBARD, Clerk.

   At a special meeting of the board of trustees, held on the call of the President at the store of G. W. Bradford on the 19th of August, 1882: Present—I. H. Palmer, President; G. W. Bradford, D. E. Smith and H. Wells, trustees.

   Mr. Wells offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

   Resolved, That the contract bearing date May 1, 1882, between the Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Railroad Company as party of the first part, the Cortland Wagon Company as party of the second part, and the Village of Cortland as party of the third part, having been executed by the parties of the first and second parts respectively, and now submitted to the board of trustees of the Village of Cortland by the president thereof, be and the same is hereby adopted and approved, and the said president is hereby authorized and directed to execute the same on the part of the Village of Cortland by affixing his official signature and the seal of the Village of Cortland thereto. Said contract being to secure the opening, dedication and laying out of Railroad street to a width of three rods across the lands and tracks of the Syracuse, Binghamton Railroad Company near their depot, and the removal of obstructions therefrom, the opening of Pendleton street from East Railroad street south to East Court street across said railroad company's lands and a lane from thence south to Port Watson street on the east side of said railroad company's tracks, and the compromise of the differences arising over the proposed extension of East Court street across the lands and tracks of the said railroad company.

   A proposal of W. W. Davis, of Greene, N. Y., to furnish flagging for street purposes was considered, and the president was authorized to complete a contract with him.

   Resolved, That James Ellsworth, M. F. Cleary, Ithurial Grannis and Peter VanBergen be appointed special policemen to serve during the stay of Barnum’s show.

   An application for a new street lamp on the east side of North Main street was granted and referred to Messrs. Palmer, Wells and Smith to locate the same.

   The President was authorized to construct for the sale of gravel to the contractor to build the street railroad so much as might be satisfactory to complete the grading within the …of the corporation. [bottom of news page is ink-smeared and illegible—CC editor.]

THE GREAT SHOW.

   To say that the parade of Barnum's show last Saturday was the finest ever seen in Cortland; that the animals were the best-looking, of the greatest variety and the most rare; that the leaping of John Bacheller is not excelled; that the horseback riding of Madame Dockrill is splendidly done; that the wire-walking of Zazel is wonderfully skillful, while her dive from the peak of the tent and her get-up-and-get style of leaving the cannon when it is fired, are thrilling and daring in the extreme, as is also the way in which Lulu takes his departure from the catapult; that the thousand and one other feats astonish the beholder and overwhelm him with admiration; is saying only what the 20,000 people who came to Cortland on that day already know, and who are willing to swear that Barnum is not a humbug; that he performs all he advertises and does it in a grand way.

   The feeling is one of astonishment at the immensity of the exhibition, and at the completeness of its management, and if Barnum would do as our people desire, he would come every year. Cortland News, Sept. 1, 1882.

Cortland Democrat,Friday, September 1, 1882.

Barnum and Jumbo.

   The largest crowd of people ever in Cortland on one day put in an early appearance last Saturday, to see Jumbo and the thousand and one other curiosities to be seen in the great Barnum Show. People had been led to expect something marvelous from the immense amount of advertising which had been done in advance, and they were not disappointed.

   The street parade was beyond all question the finest that anyone ever saw, and was alone worth coming many miles to see. Inside the mammoth tents, however, was the place to experience solid comfort. On entering the menagerie tent, the first thing t o attract attention was that immense mountain of flesh and bone, Jumbo, towering away up above the largest of the 21 other elephants that stood in the centre of the tent. The baby elephant, Bridgeport, the smallest in the world, looked like a pigmy beside the father of all elephants, and was at all times the centre of a crowd of curious spectators. The wild men of Borneo, small in stature, but said to be possessed of prodigious strength, were mere specks of humanity, when compared with the huge giant who occupied a platform nearby. The animals were the finest specimens we have ever seen, and many of them very rare, and never before exhibited in this country.

   Passing into the vast circus tent which will seat 16,500 people, and which was completely filled with those anxiously awaiting the beginning of the performance, one could not help wondering where so many people came from. Three large rings are pitched in the centre, and around these is the race track, nearly a half mile in length. The circus is all that is advertised. The wonderful performances of Zazel, the human cannon ball, Lulu in his flying leaps, Madame Dockrill, the most dashing of female riders, the surprising acts of the tumblers and leapers, the wonderful sagacity and difficult feats of the Trakene stallions and performing elephants, and last but not least, the novel and exciting races, stamp this as the circus par excellence. One could hardly see all there is to be seen at one visit, however, without the guidance and assistance of Mr. D. S. Thomas, the prince of press agents, who makes it a point to see that every member of the press has every attention that will contribute to his comfort and pleasure.

   Taken altogether, the allied shows, under the princely management of Messrs. Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson, are a marvelous success, and must be seen to be appreciated.

 

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